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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Songs about the open road have been around since … well, at least since Walt Whitman wrote his ‘Song of the Open Road’ in 1856. In popular music, too, songs in praise of cars, roads, driving, and the power and speed of automotive engineering have a pretty considerable pedigree. ...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) The phrase ‘poetic justice’ is well-known, but its origins are perhaps less familiar to most people. The expression refers, of course, to a situation whereby someone gets what they deserve for their actions. But the ‘poetic’ part of the phrase also suggests that there may be an ironic aspect ...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) In 1922, the year that his poem The Waste Land was published, T. S. Eliot wrote something that you wouldn’t necessarily expect from the high priest of modernist difficulty and (according to his first wife, Vivienne, at least) a man who could be a bit of a snob. It’s ...

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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Here’s a question for you: which costume drama shows Colin Firth emerging soaking wet from a lake? If you answered, ‘Pride and Prejudice, obviously’, then read on. The BBC television adaptation of Austen’s novel from 1995 does feature a rather damp Mr Darcy, played by Firth, but we never ...

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